Greenfield (Mass.) Peace Center
Greenfield Peace Center Records, 1962-19781 box (0.5 linear feet).
Formed in 1963, the Greenfield Peace Center viewed itself as an educational organization teaching about and advocating for world peace. Their activities included organizing peace marches, warning against the dangers of nuclear war, conducting teach-ins, campaigning against war toys, and counseling on the alternatives to the draft.
Correspondence, administrative documents, and news clippings relating to peace activism centered in Greenfield, Massachusetts and in the upper Pioneer Valley, especially by the Greenfield Community Peace Center, William Hefner, and Turn Toward Peace.
Subjects
- Peace movements--Massachusetts.
- Turn Toward Peace.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Protest movements--Massachusetts.
- Hefner, William K.
Call no.: MS 121
